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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the girls' discussion of the boots, Sara Tansey:
(a) Flings the door open and threatens to shoot Christy.
(b) Tries the boots on and considers keeping them.
(c) Makes coffee.
(d) Suggests they wait for Pegeen to return.

2. What Christy offer the Widow Quin if she will help him win Pegeen?
(a) A path on his property that leads to the river.
(b) Prayers that will get her to heaven at the time of her death.
(c) A job at Pegeen's once they are wed.
(d) Chickens.

3. Christy tells the girls and the Widow Quin that his father wanted him to:
(a) Move out.
(b) Plow his four acres of potatoes without a horse.
(c) Wed the young girl next door so that he would have a maid.
(d) Marry an old, overweight, half blind, widow of ill repute.

4. Who is "The Playboy of the Western World?"
(a) Shaneen Keogh
(b) Christy Mahon
(c) Michael Flaherty
(d) Old Mahon

5. When Act II opens, what is the time of day?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Morning light.
(c) Afternoon tea time.
(d) High noon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character can be described as a character foil for Pegeen?

2. Which character in the story seems to have the most self-doubt?

3. The conflict that appears in Act II is:

4. What does the Widow Quin suggest that Old Mahon do?

5. How does Old Mahon describe Christy's personality?

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